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AICN BOOKS! Adam Balm On William Gibson, Neil Gaiman, Brian Aldiss, And More!

George Takei by jesuschrist	Aug 5th, 2007 12:01:05 AM
Stop fighting him olwning your ass! submit!
If I guess correctly.. by jesuschrist	Aug 5th, 2007 12:02:51 AM
He was the FIRST to own your fucking ass! He is the Alpha and Omega of ass owning!
I'm so bored on a Saturday Night... by jesuschrist	Aug 5th, 2007 12:04:47 AM
But seriously, William Gibson in 2007? What am I, talkbacking in 1989?
So now it's clear I'm just posting... by jesuschrist	Aug 5th, 2007 12:22:26 AM
For the sake of posting. Nothing to say and access to the internet. Is it really that uncommon? Maybe I should write a manifesto? If so, what about? The evils of technonology? The Jack, Kate and Sawyer love triangle on Lost? That my balls smell faintly of cleanign solvents? Hmmm... I may be on to something there. I think it's Ajax. If you're anything like me, when I read Nail Gaimman (see, I'm on topic) I sweat pretty hard. Usually, the sweat collects in the scrotal area. Look, I know this isn't pretty, but I'm not doing you or me any favors by lying. I'm sick of the bullshit! Let's just stop lying abouit our ball-sweat people! When I see the news from Iraq, I think "what a shame, if only the American forces and the insurgents could talk and share ball-sweating stories." We're all just testicle laden meat sacks, right? C'mon, tell me you haven't been deep into a Brian Aldiss book and thought the same thing, right? Right? AND AND AND get this, Brian Aldriss is an anagram for... for... for... BALL DRAINS! Oh my God, did I just blow your mind? Thought so. OK, time to watch the "The Two Coreys" on A&E. I told you I was bored. C'Mon!!!!! So I sweat, a lot in the ball area. I clean up with Ajax and Lava soap. Thank God my scrotum skin is a full 1/2inch thick. Wonder if I'll get banned from AICN for this? I probably should be. I wouldn't read this crap I just wrote.
As always, book reviews appreciated... by couP	Aug 5th, 2007 04:17:31 AM
Spaceman Blues looks interesting enough, although I do wonder why there aren't more damn copies on eBay
Hmm, ok, it hasn't been released yet ~_~ by couP	Aug 5th, 2007 04:22:58 AM

Here's your Alien3 script by Gibson, if link works. by kabong	Aug 5th, 2007 10:28:33 AM
http://home.online.no/~bhundla n/scripts/alien3/gibson.htm
OK, let's try that Gibson link with a tinyurl by kabong	Aug 5th, 2007 10:32:24 AM
http://tinyurl.com/3xjfn
Nice work, AB. by SkidMarkedUndies	Aug 5th, 2007 10:33:08 AM
From a good friend in the Zone. Very nicely done.
HAMMER OF THE GODS!!!!! by ectocriminal	Aug 5th, 2007 11:05:20 AM
we want it and we want it now!
We Live In The Future (And It Blows)! by LaserPants	Aug 5th, 2007 11:17:30 AM
Good reviews, Adam, but I think you're being a little cynical about writers (or publishers) packaging SF as 'modern-day-techno thrillers' on purpose in order to increase sales. Of course, that may be the case, but I honestly think that the world we live in today feels like a science fiction dystopia, feels like 'cyberpunk' (shudder), feels like a prequel to CHILDREN OF MEN, ROAD WARRIOR, BLADE RUNNER, what have you, and therefore provides an exciting and fertile ground to write about. Given this, I think writers gravitate to the present or 'very near future' because its more exciting and immediate and happening; there doesn't seem much point in space operas anymore (other than pure fun and escapism). Of course, someone could always write another "terraforming" novel (yawn). Btw, I reccomend you pick up QUANTICO by Greg Bear. I'm about halfway through and its a frikkin' page turner! Very cool hard sci-fi set in the present / very near future dealing with bioterror. Really good stuff and absolutely terrifying.
Dude, I love it. Anytime by Omar B	Aug 5th, 2007 01:49:18 PM
Dude, I love it. Anytime there's a new Gibson book it always ends in my and my friends sitting up all night in a diner talking about it. Ypou guys need to do more techno-thrillers and syp novels though. Daniel Silva's books have just been aquired by Paramount, jump on it boys!
William Gibson by GimmieMyBackpackBack	Aug 5th, 2007 11:09:46 PM
I hate to say it, but this dude has gotta go. Neuromancer was such an awesome book, but every book of his since then has gotten worse in terms of plot, characters, and atmosphere (except Idoru, which had its moments). I recently tried to read Pattern Recognition and was disgusted. The amount of detail given to the description of clothes is ridiculous. The whole idea of "the footage" is just plain stupid, and all the technology seems pretty dated at this point- and the book's only been out for a few years! I look at someone like William Gibson and I see a writer who used to blow your mind with well-thought out futuristic visions and is now just throwing bits of "ultra-cool" at you (his previous protagonist was a "coolhunter" and his new protag is so cool she works for a magazine that doesn't exist yet? Get the fuck out of here.) This "hipper than you" obscurity tries to get at you, hoping you'll mistake his pretentiousness as genius. He's over, and has been for a while. Go read some Neal Stephenson, a writer who has gotten better with each novel and trumps Gibson in just about every measurable category of what a great science fiction writer should be.
I want a MOLLY MILLIONS solo story from Gibson... by BurnHollywood	Aug 6th, 2007 01:37:28 AM
No brain-twisting plot, no cyber-whatever, no rhyme, no reason...just 300 pages of that bug-eyed, cyborg bitch slashing and slaying until her razor-tipped fingernails wear out and she has to book a flight to Chiba City for replacements...Oh, yeah. That'd be the shit. Get on it, Billy-boy.
Never understood Gibson. Hes unintelligible to me by Lovecraftfan	Aug 6th, 2007 10:06:17 AM
I tried reading Nueromancer and Pattern Reconition and I really had no idea what I was reading.
Didn't PATTERN RECOGNITION Seem Alot Like DEMONLOVER? by LaserPants	Aug 6th, 2007 12:07:47 PM
Which came first?! Sonic Youth did the music for the film, and they wrote a song called "Pattern Recognition" for their album Sonic Nurse! Wtf?!?!

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